Hawke Quoted in Bloomberg Law on SEC’s Use of Data & Patterns

Securities Enforcement Litigation partner Daniel Hawke was quoted in the Bloomberg Law article, “SEC Targets Lose Defense to Data-Based Insider Trading Probes.” The article discusses a recent case that highlights the SEC’s surveillance tools used for insider trading investigations.

Hawke spoke on the SEC’s Market Abuse Unit’s (MAU) use of analytical tools to generate leads and develop pattern evidence, enabling the MAU to identify relationships among traders and potential sources of material nonpublic information.

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